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The year that the Mercers left, a photographer was travelling
around Britain. He'd been sent by the housing
charity Shelter to all the most
deprived parts of the country to take photographs of the
conditions there. And perhaps, inevitably, that journey took him to Liverpool 8
and to Falkner Street, where he took a couple photographs,
including this tragic image of a young girl and her baby sister. It looks like they got dressed
up to have their photograph taken, and yet they're standing in
appalling conditions. Broken windows, damp running down
the walls. These are the conditions of Falkner
Street at the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s
around Britain. He'd been sent by the housing
charity Shelter to all the most
deprived parts of the country to take photographs of the
conditions there. And perhaps, inevitably, that journey took him to Liverpool 8
and to Falkner Street, where he took a couple photographs,
including this tragic image of a young girl and her baby sister. It looks like they got dressed
up to have their photograph taken, and yet they're standing in
appalling conditions. Broken windows, damp running down
the walls. These are the conditions of Falkner
Street at the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s
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The year that the Mercers left,
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a photographer was travelling
around Britain.
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He'd been sent by the housing
charity Shelter to all the most
deprived parts of the country
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to take photographs of the
conditions there.
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And perhaps, inevitably,
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that journey took him to Liverpool 8
and to Falkner Street,
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where he took a couple photographs,
including this tragic image
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of a young girl and her baby sister.
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It looks like they got dressed
up to have their photograph taken,
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and yet they're standing in
appalling conditions.
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Broken windows, damp running down
the walls.
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These are the conditions of Falkner
Street at the end of the 1960s
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and the beginning of the 1970s.
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Movie Summary
Historian David Olusoga charts 180 years of British history as lived by the successive inhabitants of a single home in a British city - from its construction to the present day.
